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'A King's Story'-In His Own Words

The Duke says: I'd do it again

By Newell Rogers

NEW YORK Q: "You Bre a wise hus-

HE Duke of Windsor band?"

THE

would do it all over The Duke chuckled.

again-"it" being the abdi- 4: "Do you believe that

cation, and his marriage to wives are a writer's toughest Mrs Wallis Simpson.

He said so.

It was up on the fourth floor of New York's Waldorf Astoria and the Duke, tanned from gali ("if I break 90 I'm very happy"), was telling reporters about his memoirs, “A King's Story."

It was framed like this-

Question: Let

me ask the 04-dollar ques- tion,

If

you

had t to do

OVET,

you do again?

would it all

The Duke: certainly would. I am i happy nan, Britain

und

has a very flue King."

The King and his fami- Jy have read portions of Ahe scrialised version of "A King's Story."

• Said the Duke: "They read them with

interest great

and ilke them."

Now a copy

of the book- presumably the £35 edition- Jips been sent to the King.

Sald Duke:...

the

"He has not

DO not know how you

Studying hard Is a firing spent your childhood.

business and you may want to Mine was surrounded

spend a week-end in the coun- Young Cypriol poet, who was a sympathiser with try, say at Karlovy Vary, a few by poverty and angry

hours by train from Prague. If Communism and From an early age faces.

was given a scholarship

you do, you must get permission Charles University in Prague. He is author of Linsistently hoped for some-

of your own university group "The Wild Olive Trees,” “The Voice of Blood" and thing better. For

and your dormitory governing that

a contributor to newspapers in Cyprus and Greece, group, then go to the police und I "something better" de-

report that you will be away, talent as a university, you have to all in eager "friends" will make your state where you are going and

undertake when schoolboy-poet and later on, a dozen different forms giving acquaintance. They

You will

back. as a journalist. At the same all possible particulars of your to show you

parts of Unless you do this and many time, I began to be attract family tree. You have to be re- the ty; in reality, they try not more things, the danger of ar-

gistered with the central police to leave you alone during your rest goes on holiday with you. ed by the propaganda which headquarters and at the police sightsening trips. assured us that Communism station of your neighbourhood.

They present you to various would create a paradise on the manager of your card from exactly those they

You must also register with people of their own cholce so dormitory that your future friends are an identity and have

want, und I began to read glowing ac- him as well ay another card you will soon find out that

hat cited: how young people over MANAGERS The Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing counts of life in this "paradire." from the police and still an-

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they were convicts. utter. The books, in Comanianist countries I

murists, of course. ap-

you have brought with you are "They are afraid lest they lose plied for ene: I wanted to see

carefully

examined by

young giri explained the "People's Democracies" Į

friends,

as well as your album bitterly to me, had

belleve come to

of family photographs. All this I heard of workers who had Signatures of many exemplary freedom," "brother sutte wanted to

people,

is done, of course, very polite- disappeared

Beaver- as the president of the ly. Their questions

merely because

Sir brook, are nu- they had argued about the be- ly love" and "real justice."

student group in the dormitory, merous and, if you are not haviour of their union leaders

Walter Monekton, of the dormitory, manager, of careful about what you say, or about the In February 1949. I was in

the president of the student or you

nan-existence of

Allen, my solicitor. Prague attending Jectures ot

ganisation at the university, of trouble.

find yourself in fruit for their children. I rond University. Charles

Sixteen

"I do not know yet whether I in the newspapers of how the months later

your former landlord, are need- found myself

ever-busy "Courts of Justice"

shall be in England in the cd so that you may be able to

send people to death or prison knocking at the door

of the live. And unless you get all

when the British Consulate in Prague, these signatures you are in dan-

nearly every week on trumped- begging for protection, for a

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for

ту

During your first week 11 Prague, when you stay at one of the students' dormitories,

things could be

had time to let

me know what he thinks of It.

these people are spying on every and are given

18 have their Angerprints, taken

may

* us." 2

these

If you want to send a letter to your mother somewhere in the West you have to take your passport, or, if you are a Czech, Your Identity book to the Post Ofce and present it to the oficer behind the counter. Your name and full address must be written on the back of the en- velope for the offloer to check.

WHO ARE THE

There is slavery in Czecho- slovakia, this is certain-And- there are huge Inscriptions in the streets speaking of Free- dom-and of Stalm, the

Great and Wise.

Princess's Advisers ?

on in a concentration camp in Albania: how I was released with a certificate stating that had been dismissed from a junatic

By VIVIEN BATCHELOR asylum-these and many other things

RINCESS ELIZABETH the King's Royal Rifle PRI could, I suppose, be regarded as just paid a courtesy call on who served as an Intelligence punishment

own the Pope recently. Her ad- Omeer in Palestine during the stupidity. They

They may also con-visers refused to be swayed vate secretary.

war, He is the Princess's pri- stituto o lesson for others.

by the protests against her 13 the Coinform's Prague

Sir Frederick Browning was reception room and the pic visit to the Vatican that appointed at the personal tures of Stalin are everywhere were made by several ex- quest of the King. He used to

re shopwindows, among loaves of bread and cucumbers treme Protestant organisa- be Chief of Staff in South-East among articles of laundry and tions-among them the Pro Asia to Lord Mountbatten. in soup kitchens; even near the testant Truth Society, the February

He took up his duties in pubile lavatories. You will find National Union of Proteat- bridge, them among women's costumes ants, and the Protestant named Browning's Bridge, has St. James's, Hampton Court and which, though in the show

His house in

Corps, As Comptroller Sir Frederick

Browning

receives "nominal salary" a few hun- only a dreds a year. But he gets £2,828 a year from the Army and is also a director of tha Savoy Hotel.

Ambassador's Court is a "grace and favour residence, whose occupants pay no rent or rates. Four of the 1948. A special Royal Palaces have "grace and which has been nick- favour" apartments, Windsor, been built to connect his house Kensington.

Ambassador's Court with PAYING THE BILLS. The Princess's stay in Malia Clarence House. there are all these pletures of before her visit to Rome also Stalin, Or you could say: led to protests. Her advisers

Major Charteris took up his "Soviet

Major Charteris's salary Russia and Czecho- came under fire from Reynolds duties in January last year. His over the £1000 a year maric, slovakia are good friends and News, the Co-operative Sunday appointment came as a surprise. He line no retirement allowance, good neighbours. A matter of paper which supports the So- For he is a high-spirited young but on leaving the Army was courtesy, perhaps." But Eng-chalist Party. It printed an ar- mon, and a complete

contrast entitled to or gratuity of £1,000 land and France are also ticle which said:

to the elegant, precise John plus a cum (£100 to £150) for friends but nowhere in Paris "The whole business of Prin- Rupert Colville who filled the each year of Amy service. He can you see Mr Attlee's photo- | ress.

Elizabeth's holidays in past before him. He is an old has to provide his own home graph among the onions The Malta has been an affront to a Elenia. Ils brother is Lord. All the financial side of real-answer, of course, is that nation fighting for Stall is not merely, the ab- British

survival, Wemyss,

Czechoslovakia also,

cases are not for sale.

You might

Alliance.

Wonder why

in

solute master of Ruskla but of wonder who it was who thought

mothers can only BOTH ARE FATHERS

Is

Princesa's household and the appointing of staff is dealt with by the Comptroller. It is he who pays the bills and accounts for the spending of money voted to the Princess by Parliament.

The Secretary deals with the Princess's appointments, rangements for public engage- ments, correspondence and social. engagements.

GT-

it a good idea for the Princess Both men are husbands and to spend 11 weeks away from fathers themselves. They sym- her children while she went pathise with the Princess's de Propaganda La Russia's the social rounds of a Mediter- sire to see as much as possible strongest weapon. She gives the rancan island. The present of her husband, people under her faselut advisers of Princess Elizabeth Sir Frederick Browning's wife Imperiallele yoke more printed thould be kicked out."

Is novelist Daphne du Maurier, matter than bread. There must MAN be more werkers in Czecho-

FROM ARNHEM who lives in a huge house near slovakia ecoupled wh printing

Fowey, in Cornwall, with their Every morning the Princess Who are these advisers"? two daughters and son.

has a conference with both men and general propaganda acti-

There

two are viies

than perhaps, with

men, bath Major Charteris is married to to discuse her plans. Some farming. What is still more in soldiers, who help the Princess the second daughter of Lord times they refer elsewhere for teneating is that what Commu- to plan her public life and look Margeston, the former. War guidance. For instance, if it is nist propagandlats preach is after the arrangements.

Minister. They were married a question of the Princess re- invariably the ravaso of the One is Lieut-General Sir in Jerusalem in 1844 and they colving a foreign visitor,

Frederick Browning, 54-year- have three young children-- paying a courtesy call if she is Let us take, for example, old Airborne commander who two sons and a daughter. The abroad (auch as the courtesy one of the inscriptions about lod his troops at Arnhem and youngest son was born in the call on the Pops), the Foreign Stalina It, says that "Stalin, is won the. DSO in the first way United States In January Inst Secretary' may be asked for a the Defenster "of Freedom." while still in his teens. He is

Kis year. Mre Charterly was ruling." This ensures that the How much fogdam is there in Comptroller of the Princess's visiting her mother, and : Major, Princess- does not unwittingly Czachoslovakia?

household, af Clarence House Charteris, flow over to be with embarrass the Government." When you arrive, in Prague The other 'Is Major the Hom, her before taking up his prosent

Charteris, aged 87, of appointment.

World Copyright Maserund as a prospective student at the | Martin

London Express Service.),

truth.

ог

"I have sent gift copies to some others in England

Lord

mrtum, published there."

critic?"

Duke: "I'd certainly say they were."

.. "And the New York critics?"

Duke: "I'm very gratified."

Sample. Herald Tribune: "The book has warmth, move- ment, humour, deep cmation. His crime was that he was not

THE DUKE

content to be merely a king, ho whis also

alt

too

viously inan"

ob-

New York Times; "A

character study

of

ย well- meaning. undistinguished

Individual des- tined from

birth to a life

of monumental artificality. The Duke hay. written with

dignity and good taste,"

Someone reminded

the Duke that the New York Times also said: "A Story'

King's ends with abdication, and thus is on unfinished

story,"

Q.; "Do you

book to finish

plan another

the story?"

Duke: "Not today. time

-Some- I might. possibly do it."

0.; "Would advic

you

Prince Charles

DS he

older to

grows Dvo

notes in ceso ho wants 10

and Goorg write his life story?"

book is

Duke: "Yos. I would. I had some diaries, kept a lot of letters, and have a good though not unfailing memory."*

R

Q: "What do you feel about The Duke sold, he and the the book now?"

Duke: "Relief, I worked on it Duchess will go to Paris at the do a little travelling in Europe, end of May and will possibly for four years eight hours

day

He thought of writing it soon

abdicated. after he

He wrote ed: "Has the Duchess read the in longhand and kept the in a battered tin manuscript book?"

labelled "Book." And The Duke: "She hasn't read everywhere the Duke wers in

That gave the reporters 0

cuc,

of them and one

ask-

box

it all. But she has had to the four years, the box was

listen to a great deal."

sure to go.

Q. “Did she help you

with

0

Q "Have you any desire to return to public life?"

The Duke: "Yes, ETOV deal. Mostly changing words.

Duke: "I'm always glad to

Or advising me not to say this help in any way I can." or to say that."

And had the Duke eny_ud

Q: "Did you take her advice for writers? Only Mr Chur- vice?""

Duke: "I went along with her mostly."

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